The Chief Executive Office of the Public Sector Reforms, Thomas Kusi Boafo has stated that no one will be employed into the public sector without the Ghana card from 1st September, 2019.
According to him through the help of the Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD),
those already in the police, military and other security services who fail to get the Ghana Card will be taken off the payroll because they will be considered as 'ghosts' on the government payroll.
Speaking in an interview on Peace FM's morning show 'kokrokoo' with sit-in host Nana Yaw Kesseh, Mr Kusi Boafo said it is about time the registration of the Ghana Card is done devoid of politics, and that he will ensure that the regulations are enforced to the latter.
“The Ghana Card is going to be a prerequisite for people who want to be employed in the public sector or want to do government projects . . . beginning 1st September, 2019, all Ghanaians who want to be recruited into the police and the military but are without the Ghana Card will not be employed. There will be no favoritisms. I am not going to pay attention to political parties," he said.
Background
The Ghana Card project started few months ago under a public-private partnership (PPP) agreement between the NIA and Identity Management Systems Ghana Limited (IMS), a subsidiary of the Margins ID Group.
It will replace the sectoral identity cards in circulation and become the only card to be used in transactions where identification is required as provided by law.
Among other things, it will enable other stakeholders to run their applications on the national identity card.
Already Members of Parliament and officials of the Presidency have been issued with their cards.
Source: Rebecca Addo Tetteh/Peacefmonline.com
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KUDUS MR KUSI BOAFO AND NPP GOVT OF NANA ADDO. GHANAIANS REALLY NEED TO BE IDENTIFIED JUST AS IN OTHER CIVILISED COUNTRIES. WE NEED THE GHANA CARD PERIOD! LET THE HATYERS INSULT. GHANA IS MOVING FORWARD REGARDLESS.
Enemy of positive change. Get stuck with your primitive ideas, we are moving forward...
You follow NDC boycott at your own risk
now it's easier to filter out the Ewes and Northerners this all-Akan business. ya gye yen man ampa.
I believe the ghosts got themselves onto the government payroll, abi? Your behaviour shows your immaturity and imcompetence. You thought governance was talk talk eh! Even in the use of the Ghana Card, new ghosts will be found on the government payroll.
Why all such actions. does it takes a day to make the Card? It takes sometime 3 days to get even a heath insurace RENEWED or londer. There are even issues with the oposition on the Card. They are also Ghanians. Please stop such rushing Thing- they are not helpful. Someo people are in sick bed since 2 months and they should nopt be punished because they are sich, out of the country or any other obstruction.
Kudos. All serious-minded countries have citizen identity cards the world over. Ghana should not behave like a colonial relic where nothing good works, except evil machinations. The GhanaCard will be one of the best things to happen to this country.
I think its another way of getting rid of ghost names on our payroll...its such a big drain on our economy and ALL well meaning Ghanaians MUST embrace it. We run to the western world forgetting they are where they are because of these checks and balances system in place.
Klap for him pa pa papa paaa.....And no Ghana cards no votes....
Good, hope you will need it to contest for parliamentary seats in 2020